Sunday, January 31, 2021

Will Biden continue NASA's Artemis program to return to the moon?

Whether Biden knows it or not, the Oval Office moon rock is pregnant with wistful symbolism. No one has been back to the moon since 1972. Two previous attempts to return humans to the moon, proposed by President George H. W. Bush and then President George W Bush, fell prey to the vagaries of politics. The third attempt, proposed by President Donald Trump, now hangs in the balance. Biden holds the Artemis program, as NASA calls it, in the hollow of his hand.

Monday, January 25, 2021

Sunday, January 24, 2021

Here Is the Real Reason Why Photos Are Banned in the Sistine Chapel
NASA demonstrates why rocket science is still hard with the SLS test

The Space Launch System’s (SLS) development by NASA and a number of aerospace contractors proves that rocket science, which is really engineering to build spacecraft, is a term that describes something that is truly difficult for a reason.

Jim Bridenstine was a transformative NASA administrator

Jim Bridenstine will soon, as he promised, step down as administrator of NASA. He served in that position for just two and three-quarters years. But in that time, he has set America and her allies on a firm path to return astronauts to the moon.

Monday, January 18, 2021

Sunday, January 17, 2021

NASA's Juno has a new mission to explore moons of Jupiter

NASA recently announced that the Juno mission to Jupiter would be extended through 2025. The probe will have a new mission to conduct close flybys of three of Jupiter’s moons, using its suite of instruments to further unlock their secrets in a follow-up to the observations made by the Voyager and Galileo spacecraft.

Ursula K. Le Guin Is Getting the Greatest of Tributes: A Stamp
The book the Abtifa does not want you to read: Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy
NASA's Europa Clipper has been liberated from the Space Launch System

Almost unnoticed, tucked into the 2021 fiscal NASA funding section of the recently passed omnibus spending bill, is a provision that would seem to liberate the upcoming Europa Clipper mission from the Space Launch System (SLS).

Wednesday, January 06, 2021

Why are we going back to the moon and not directly to Mars?

The most common objection to NASA’s Artemis program to send astronauts back to the lunar surface for the first time in five decades is a variant of the phrase “been there, done that.”

SpaceX preparing for 1st rocket launch of 2021 on Monday

Sunday, January 03, 2021

Will Axiom Space provide a commercial space station replacement for NASA's ISS?

Axiom Space has announced that it is creating an office park and manufacturing center at the Houston SpacePort at Ellington Field.

The development is a hopeful sign that, despite foot dragging by Congress, a commercial replacement for the International Space Station (ISS) may well happen. The United States has a chance to avoid a “space gap” when the ISS reaches the end of its operational life, like the one that happened between the end of the space shuttle program and the first launch of the SpaceX commercial crew Dragon mission.

2021: Florida's rapid rocket launch cadence is likely here to stay

Saturday, January 02, 2021

Cruz Letter Calls for Rejection of Electoral College Results or Ted Cruz starts battlefield preperation for 2024. Now things get entertaining.